In at least two fleshed-out paragraphs, reflect on some trends in the sampling of texts you read or watched/listened to for this lesson on contemporary black manhood and the Black Lives Matter movement. In your post, be sure to engage at least two written texts and at least one other item in the viewing section. As usual, be sure to integrate textual support in the form of quotations. Strong posts will reflect on the literary devices, as well as the themes, in the texts and visual details in the images. The questions below should help you organize your ideas.
• What do the authors and artists expose about racial oppression in the United States? Do they highlight similar or different ideas or trends?
• How is black manhood specifically explored in these texts and images? How do masculinity and poverty simultaneously impact racial oppression in the United States?
Readings: Ta-Ne Hisi Coates’s “Letter to My Son” (attached)
The new jim crow (attached)
viewings:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/07/13/the-most-powerful-art-from-the-blacklivesmatter-movement-three-years-in/?utm_term=.b4164cbff839